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Sundance question: How to spend a billion dollars
Jan. 27, 2012 12:22 PM ET (AP)
The million-dollar question at the Sundance Film Festival, home of low-budget stories shot on begged and borrowed cash, is this: What would you do if you had $1 billion to make your movie?
The...
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'Hugo,' 'Artist' inject cinema nostalgia to Oscars
Jan. 24, 2012 3:41 PM ET (AP)
American master Martin Scorsese journeyed to France, putting Hollywood's newest technology to work for his dazzling 3-D re-creation of 1930s Paris in "Hugo." French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius came...
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Review: The laudable 'Red Tails' misses its target
Jan. 18, 2012 5:16 PM ET (AP)
In "Red Tails," the famed Tuskegee Airmen get the John Wayne-style heroic rendering they very much deserve, but in a hackneyed and weirdly context-less story that does them a disservice.
Long a pet...
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Review: 'Journey 2' sinks Verne's isle in 3-D muck
Feb. 7, 2012 7:02 PM ET (AP)
There's little mystery about "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island."
This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dollars purpose with pride, delivering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents...
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Eastwood: A maverick who does politics his own way
Feb. 7, 2012 5:27 PM ET (AP)
The plot seemed familiar: A hotshot Hollywood filmmaker shills for a bailed-out car industry, yet another limousine liberal going to bat for big government.
Except the star of Chrysler's "It's Halftime...